Borna Coric and Emilio Nava will square off in the 1st round of the Cincinnati Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 1:30 pm on P&G CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Borna Coric who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Borna Coric is the pick to win this match.
Borna Coric -> 1.78
Emilio Nava -> 2.04

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Prediction and head to head Borna Coric vs. Emilio Nava

There is no head to head record between Borna Coric and Emilio Nava since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Borna Coric

Borna Coric

26 - 10win/loss

Hard
1-3
I Hard
10-2
Clay
15-5
Rank
115
High
12
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 26-13 1-6 15-5 10-2 0-0 0-0
2024 23-27 8-13 3-7 11-6 1-1 0-0
2023 22-19 10-10 9-5 3-1 0-3 0-0
2022 27-17 10-5 10-9 7-3 0-0 0-0
2021 6-3 3-2 0-0 3-1 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 92, the Croatian will start his run in Cincinnati after he played his last match in Toronto where he lost 4-6 6-2 7-6(2) to Gigante in the 1st round on the 28th of July.

The Croatian has a compiled 26-10 win-loss record in 2025, 1-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the year was conquering the title the Lugano Challenger where he defeated Raphael Collignon in the final 6-3 6-1 and the Thionville Challenger where he beat Arthur Bouquier in the final 6-4 6-4 and the Zadar Challenger where he overcame Valentin Royer in the final 3-6 6-2 6-3 and the Aix En Provence Challenger where he beat Stan Wawrinka in the final 6-7(5) 6-3 7-6(4).

Talking about his overall career, Coric has an overall 360-252 record. He has a positive 154-108 record on hard.

Previously in Cincinnati

Previously, he won this tournament once in 2022. See his history.

Cincinnati
Coric's Record

Emilio Nava

Emilio Nava

46 - 21win/loss

Hard
7-5
I Hard
0-0
Clay
36-14
Grass
3-2
Rank
88
High
88
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 56-28 8-7 45-19 0-0 3-2 0-0
2024 34-34 16-15 8-9 8-5 2-5 0-0
2023 40-31 24-14 12-8 4-9 0-0 0-0
2022 41-27 15-15 14-6 12-6 0-0 0-0
2021 40-16 9-6 27-7 4-3 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 114 (career-high), Emilio reached the 1st round after defeating Mikhail Kukushkin 7-5 6-2 and Mariano Navone 7-5 6-4.

In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Navone (7-5 6-4). During the match Nava scored 73 points vs Navone’s 60. The American was extremely aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Talking about serving, Nava managed to score 11 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Emilio Nava was very effective on serve to win 81% (34/42) of his 1st serve and 54% (14/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Nava broke Navone 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The American started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to conquer 54% of the points he played.

His best result of the year was winning the title the Asuncion Challenger where he beat Thiago Moura Monteiro in the final 7-5 6-3 and the Concepcion Challenger where he defeated Nicolas Kicker in the final 6-1 7-6(3) and the Sarasota Challenger where he defeated Liam Draxl in the final 6-2 7-6(2).

Emilio has an aggregate 46-21 win-loss record in 2025, 7-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Cincinnati

Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See his history.

Cincinnati
Nava's Record

Tennis Scores in Cincinnati

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